Archaeology in a Living Landscape: Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas

Recognizing and incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems in archaeological studies of the Americas

This book explores the diverse range of other-than-human persons that inhabited and affected the landscape of the ancient Americas. These case studies acknowledge what is often dismissed by Western scholars: that Indigenous communities have long recognized degrees of personhood in mountains, volcanoes, caves, springs, rivers, rocks, plants, archaeological sites, trees, and animals and that th...